This article is about the original UK version of The Office. For the US version, see
The Office (US TV series), and for a comparison of the various versions from around the world, see
The Office. The Office is an
Emmy-nominated, and
Golden Globe Award and
BAFTA Award-winning
British television comedy that first aired in the UK on
BBC Two on
9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by
Ricky Gervais and
Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the
Slough,
Berkshire branch of the fictitious Wernham-Hogg Paper Company. Although fictional and scripted, the programme takes the form of a
documentary (a fictional documentary, i.e. a
mockumentary), with the presence of the camera often acknowledged.
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